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  1. N

    Challenger Disaster 40th Anniversary

    Today (January 28th, 2026) is the 40th anniversary of the destruction of the Challenger during its ascent phase post Max-Q. It was a shocking event to may including myself (I'd turned 13 the previous November in 1985 and I was on holiday with my family in Mt. Maunganui) in which the public...
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  2. Grey Havoc

    NASA Low cost OTV studies (2025)

    Though it might be more accurate to describe most of the OTV designs here as expendable payload busses, though in at least in some cases they will have cislunar capability. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-six-companies-to-provide-orbital-transfer-vehicle-studies/...
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    • 2025 artemis program cold war ii late 2020s launch services program (nasa) nasa orbital transfer vehicle trump administration united states
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  3. Foo Fighter

    Jim Lovell. RIP.

    Just heard another starman has passed beyond the reach of mortal earth. Reaching for the stars in perpetuity. RIP, Sir.
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    • 20th century apollo 13 apollo 8 apollo program astronaut cold war congressional space medal of honor early 21st century jet age mcdonnell douglas mechanical engineer nasa naval aviation presidential medal of freedom project gemini space age space race test pilots united states united states navy
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  4. Tuomasn

    X-30 NASP composite configuration evolution

    Following discussion in the late 1980s whether the National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) program should go for a traditional award to one airframe and propulsion manufacturer to build the actual X-30 test aircraft, or form a team among the remaining companies (McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics...
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  5. Flyaway

    Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

    I think NASA research into this goes back a good while now, and certainly across a few presidential administrations. Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172 View...
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    • artemis program cold war ii department of energy lunar moon moon base moonbase nasa nuclear microreactor nuclear power small nuclear reactors trump administration united states westinghouse electric company
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  6. Flyaway

    First launch from Cape Canaveral

    The First Cape Launch View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jco8WtwxRo4
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    • cape canaveral cold war nasa space age space race state of florida united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  7. hesham

    The Story of the Atomic Airplane

    A very good site,and my dear PaulMM spoke about it before, https://whatisnuclear.com/the-story-of-the-atomic-airplane.html https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/aircraft-nuclear-propulsion-program-manned-aircraft-progress-report-1956-1958-video.45325/
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    • 1950s 1980s aircraft nuclear propulsion program atomic energy commission cold war early 1960s fairchild aircraft corporation fairchild airplane company late 1940s nasa national advisory committee for aeronautics nuclear energy for the propulsion of aircraft nuclear powered aircraft post-world war ii strategic air command strategic bomber united states united states air force united states army air forces united states navy
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  8. Flyaway

    NASA+ is coming to Netflix this summer

    Press release. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-is-coming-to-netflix-this-summer/
  9. Graham1973

    McDonnell Douglas Barbarian launch vehicle

    Hazegrey Art just released another CGI video this time covering a McDD competitor to the Titan 'Barbarian'... View: https://youtu.be/RvO31_Odpyg
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    • cold war heavy lift vehicle launch vehicle mcdonnell douglas nasa post cold war sdi space age space launch system space race strategic defense initiative united states united states air force usa
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  10. Stargazer

    NACA 12-Ft. Low Speed Tunnel / Free Flight Tunnel test models

    Years ago, when NASA started sharing its archives online, I spent a lot of time indexing the photos of the various models tested in wind tunnels. I only saved a few of them, thinking that the images were online to stay... only to discover later on that none of the links I had saved to the...
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    • 20th century cold war great britain interwar period jet age nasa national advisory committee for aeronautics rocket space age space race united states v/stol aircraft vtol world war ii
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  11. Arjen

    Ed Smylie obituary - engineer turned Apollo 13 hero

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/space/ed-smylie-dead.html More at the link.
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    • apollo 13 apollo program cold war history nasa space age space race united states
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  12. Flyaway

    White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent

    To summarise the article. This would decimate multiple existing science missions still productively producing data. It could mean killing missions that cost billions of dollars to make. It could be mean the death of missions in development. It would destroy the crown jewel of NASA, something...
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    • 2025 cold war ii nasa national science foundation trump administration
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  13. RavenOne

    Alinda, mountain size asteroid

    This mountain sized asteroid (slightly resembling bread dough and making me feel hungry lol!) will bypass us. cheers
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    • 2025 asteroids nasa
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  14. XP67_Moonbat

    Vintage X-15A-3 Desk Model On eBay

    VINTAGE FACTORY NORTH AMERICAN NASA X-15 X-15A-3 DESK MODEL PROTOTYPE DELTA WING Item description from the seller: This vintage factory desk model of the North American Aviation X-15A-3 Delta wing prototype. This was a proposal to achieve Mach 8, the project was cancelled in 1962. Fairly large...
  15. Moose

    Electra Aero

    Electra Aero based in Virginia, USA has been flying their EL-2 "Goldfinch" eSTOL prototype this year. View: https://youtu.be/esTykmreHuQ?si=kYyR5twOLkFumFiU Recent events include demonstrations for DoD and even giving the NASA administrator a ride View...
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  16. Michel Van

    New NASA Administrator

    President Trump just selected Jared Isaacman as new Administrator of NASA Isaacman flew twice with SpaceX in space View: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1864358177728516252
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    • cold war ii nasa trump administration united states
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  17. uk 75

    Was a Manned Mars mission in 1982 feasible?

    The political and financial answers to this question were dealt with here . https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/space-1975-could-von-brauns-vision-have-worked.32299/page-2 What I really wanted to know and still do, was could it have been done technically? or was it just too complex? For...
  18. E

    Vast releases design of Haven-2 commercial space station

    https://spacenews.com/vast-releases-design-of-haven-2-commercial-space-station/
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    • aerospace industry cold war ii commercial international space station nasa space station united states
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  19. The K2

    Astronaut Joe Engle passes away

    https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/pilot-astronaut-joe-engle Didn’t see anything on the evening news on TV about this. Sad.
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    • aerospace research test pilot school apollo program astronaut cold war nasa space age space race space shuttle space transportation system test pilots united states air force usaf test pilot school
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  20. Grey Havoc

    Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer / Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE / NEOWISE)

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/nasas_asteroid_spotter_turned_off/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/neowise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-field_Infrared_Survey_Explorer Incidentally, there is a comet named in honor of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_NEOWISE
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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